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|Oracle® Database Platform Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1) for Windows
Part Number B10113-02
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This appendix describes Oracle Net Services configuration for Windows. For more generic information on Oracle Net Services configuration, see Oracle Net Services Administrator's Guide.
This appendix contains these topics:
Understanding Oracle Net Services Registry Parameters and Subkeys
The registry contains entries for Oracle Net Services parameters and subkeys. To successfully add or modify Oracle Net Services configuration parameters, you must understand where they are located and the rules that apply to them.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services contains subkeys that correspond to services. Depending on what is installed, your Oracle Net Services consist of all or a subset of the following:
Each service subkey contains the parameters shown in Table C-1.
Table C-1 Service Subkey Parameters
|Specifies service name.
|Specifies fully qualified path name of executable invoked by service and any command line arguments passed to executable at runtime.
|Specifies logon user account and computer to which service should log on.
In Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1), the listener is set to start automatically at system restart. If you intend to use only the listener for all of your databases, ensure that only the Windows service for the listener, as listed in the Control Panel, is set to start automatically.
Oracle usually recommends that you only have a single net listener service running on a Windows computer at any one time. This single listener can support multiple databases. If you need to have two different net listener services running on a Windows computer at the same time, make sure that they are configured to listen on different TCP/IP port numbers.
If the same IP address and port are used for different listeners, you might expect that the second and subsequent listeners would fail to bind. Instead, Windows allows them all to listen on the same IP address and port, resulting in unexpected behavior of the listeners. This is a suspected Windows operating system problem with TCP/IP and has been reported to Microsoft.
You can use the following parameters on Windows:
Oracle Net Service first checks for the parameters as environment variables, and uses the values defined. If environment variables are not defined, it searches for these parameters in the registry.
You can use parameter
LOCAL to connect to Oracle Database without specifying a connect identifier in the connect string. The value of parameter
LOCAL is any connect identifier, such as a net service name. For example, if parameter
LOCAL is specified as
finance, you can connect to a database from SQL*Plus with:
SQL> CONNECT scott/tiger
rather than
SQL> CONNECT scott/tiger@finance
Oracle Net checks if
LOCAL is defined as an environment variable or as a parameter in the registry, and uses
finance as the service name. If it exists, Oracle Net connects.
You can add parameter
TNS_ADMIN to change the directory path of Oracle Net Services configuration files from the default location of
\network\admin. For example, if you set
TNS_ADMIN to
\test\admin, the configuration files are used from
You can set parameter
USE_SHARED_SOCKET to
true to enable use of shared sockets. If this parameter is set to
true, the network listener passes the socket descriptor for client connections to the database thread. As a result, the client does not need to establish a new connection to the database thread and database connection time improves. Also, all database connections share the port number used by the network listener, which can be useful if you are setting up third-party proxy servers.
This parameter only works in dedicated server mode in a TCP/IP environment. If this parameter is set, you cannot use the 9.0 listener to spawn Oracle7 release 7.x databases. To spawn a dedicated server for an instance of Oracle Database not associated with the same Oracle home as the listener and have shared socket enabled, you must also set parameter
USE_SHARED_SOCKET for both Oracle homes.
The following sections describe advanced configuration procedures specifically for Oracle Net Services on Windows operating systems.
Oracle Net Services provides authentication methods for Windows operating systems using Windows Native Authentication.
The network listener service may be unable to open the Named Pipe created by Oracle Names unless service
TNSListener has a valid user ID and password associated with it.
See Also:Your operating system documentation for instructions on setting up network listener permissions
This section supplements generic information provided in Oracle Net Services Administrator's Guide to configure a listener on Windows operating systems to exclusively handle external procedures. For a higher level of security, you are instructed to start the listener for external procedures from a user account with lower privileges than the
oracle user. For Windows operating systems, this requires that you change the user account from LocalSystem to a local, unprivileged user for the
extproc_listener_name service.
Note:The following instructions assume that you have performed steps 1 through 5 in the section "Modifying Configuration of External Procedures for Higher Security" in Oracle Net Services Administrator's Guide.
To change the listener account:
Create a new user account and grant it Log on as a Service privilege.
Note:Ensure that this user account does not have general access to files owned by
oracle. Specifically, this user should not have permission to read or write to database files or to the Oracle Database server address space. In addition, this user should have read access to the
listener.ora file, but must not have write access to it.
Stop service
See Also:Your operating system documentation for instructions on accessing the Services dialog and stopping services
Note:If the
extproc_listener_name service does not exist, issue the following command from the command prompt:
lsnrctl start extproc_listener_name
This creates the
extproc_listener_name service in the Services dialog and then display the properties of the service.
Select This Account and enter the username and password.
Start the listener by clicking Start. You must start the listener in this way because you cannot use the Listener Control utility to start the listener running as an unprivileged local user.
Note:You can also use
NET START OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener
extproc_listener_name to start the listener from the command prompt. Running the listener with lower privileges prevents you from using Listener Control utility
SET commands to alter the configuration of this listener in file
listener.ora. You can perform other administrative tasks on this listener with the Listener Control utility, including stopping the listener. Oracle recommends that you complete
listener.ora file configuration prior to running the listener.


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Singapore apartment
This apartment belongs to Irene from Bloesem and is too good to pass up. I dream of white epoxy floors like this some day they're so bright and seem easy to clean, which I like.
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Nina from Stylizimo painted her living room floor and achieved the same look, so there's hope for DIY'ers yet!
Hi Naomi, yes we did epoxy this time. The material is harder then regular paint. But in the past we have done white flooring with special paint too and it did work, but we had to re-paint every other year.ReplyDelete
Thank you lovely lady for sharing my apartment :) xx irene
See... I always think white floors look cool but wouldn't it scuff like mad?ReplyDelete
Pretty awesome place though.
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Beautiful and Amazing Ice and Snow Sculptures.
The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963. Officially, the festival starts from January 5th and lasts one month. However often the exhibitions open earlier and last longer, weather permitting. Ice sculpture decoration ranges from the modern technology of lasers to traditional ice lanterns. There are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. The Harbin festival is one of the world's four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Ski Festival.
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Last week the hubby and I took the Lil Divas + my niece to Young at Art Children's Museum in Davie, FL. What the Lil Divas & I enjoy most about this particular children's museum is all the opportunities they provide to explore various forms/mediums of art. It was a fun filled day for all three girls who are 3, 4 & 5 yrs old!
The girls started off with the EarthWorks exhibit - they LOVE the landfill slide, magnetic wall, light table and musical alleyway.
Then they moved on to the Global Village where there is so much to see, craft and do! The Lil Divas tried their hand at Japanese writing with water , played on the African Drums and enjoyed a Mayan Archaeological dig.
Another favorite exhibit is Kenny's Closet (artist Kenny Scharf). There is a cool psychedelic day-glo black light room. It is hard to take pics in there but believe me it is an experience! Then right outside the room is a art area which the girls always spend lots of time in.
There was also a fun Jim Henson inspired exhibit with lots of Sesame Street fun. One area was set up where kids could use all sorts of recyclables to create puppets - it was great to see what the Lil Divas came up with.
Do you have a local Art inspired Children's Museum? I'd love to hear about it?
PS - I must mention that we used a fab 2-for-1 Groupon deal for our visit! I LOVE Groupon deals to places we frequent! What a $$$$ saver!


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1076: Groundhog Day
|Groundhog Day
Title text: If you closely examine the cosmic background radiation, you can pick up lingering echoes of 'I Got You Babe'.
| This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: The celebration of the Groundhog Day happens once per year, why does this movie iterate on this day? Also, cosmic background radiation needs explaining
If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.
This comic is a mash-up of the American movie "Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray and the work of James Ussher who was a Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific scholar, who most famously published a chronology that purported to establish the time and date of the creation as the night preceding Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC, according to the proleptic Julian calendar.
This comic is purporting to say that unlike in the movie, Bill Murray and Rita (Andie MacDowell) never move on to February 3, but instead create our world with some sort of "sexual infinity".
The title is a reference to the song "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher, which is the song that Bill Murray's character wakes up to every morning of February 2 (and February 3 as well).
In the movie Groundhog Day, the final scene has Bill Murray's character wearing the same clothes as the night before, implying he didn't sleep with Rita after all. Randall later noticed this error and apologized for it on the blag.
- Groundhog Day really didn't end that way. When Bill Murray finally slept with Rita, it didn't break the loop.
- [Phil Connors and Rita gettin' busy under the covers of his bed.]
- They just kept having sex, night after night,
- [Bed containing Phil and Rita repeats.]
- February 2nd after February 2nd...
- [Calendar page repeats.]
- ..forever
- But nothing is forever. Not even forever
- And the day after that sexual infinity
- [Calendar page shows Feb 3.]
- was February 3rd.
- 264 days later (the length of a pregnancy) was October 23rd —
- [An enormous explosion in space.]
- Bishop Ussher's date for the birth of our world.
If the world is stuck in an infinite loop on February 2nd, how can February 3rd happen? Ever? Davidy22[talk] 13:37, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- I guess February 3rd happens on the omega'th day of that infinite loop? Alpha (talk) 05:25, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
It also happens that the date for the beginning of the world is Mole day... 184.108.40.206 05:21, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
The name of the main character ist not the only thing Randall got wrong about the movie... In the Wikipedia article, it is specifically mentioned that Phil and Rita did not have sex that night. 22.214.171.124 19:54, 31 July 2018 (UTC)


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News of the Prisoners
A- Transfers
- Ebrahim Babaei transferred to hospital.
- Imprisoned opposition cleric Ayatollah Kazemini Boroujerdi hospitalized.
- Participation Front member Mehdi Eghbal has been released on medical furlough.
- Political prisoner Mohamadreza Motamednia was taken to Modarres hospital and returned to Evin after treatment.
- Reza Sharifi Bokani transferred to solitary confinement in Rajaei Shahr Prison.
- Illegal transfer of Sharokh Zamani, Workers' rights activist, to Yazd prison
B- Arrests/Incarcerations
- Baha'i Atefeh Anvari was arrested in Isfahan.
- Journalist Farshad Aswad arrested on his way out of the country.
- Mohammad Ilkhanizadeh Tehran University student sentenced to 3 months prison and 74 lashes.
- Zeynab Jafarzadeh, a student at the Teachers Seminar in Tehran, was arrested in the student dormitory and transferred to Evin Prison.
- Baha'i Mahnaz Jan-Tasar was arrested in a raid of her home in Bandar Abbas.
- Extension of medical furlough denied for Mahboubeh Karami, she is back to Evin.
- Zahra Khodabakhsh, daughter of Shargh newspaper investor, detained.
- Basimeh Kamjoo, teacher, arrested in Fasham.
- Mojtaba Karimi, Mohammad Moradi, and Erfan Mohammad arrested in Esfahan for distributing Kebrit, a forbidden student newspaper.
- Journalist Sam Mahmoudi recalled to prison.
- Manizheh Najm Araghi, writer, translator and secretary of the Writers Association, arrested.
- Baha'i Zhinous Nourani begins serving her one year sentence in Semnan.
- Baha'i Rofia Bidaghi begins serving her one year sentence in Semnan
- Mohammad Rezaei, member of National-Religious party entered prison to serve his sentence.
- Sadaf Sabetian Baha'i, arrested and sent to Evin to serve her 2 years sentence.
- Behnam Sheikhi arrested again and sent to Intelligence detention center in Tabriz.
- Number of Christian citizens, affiliated to "Church of Iran", arrested in Karaj.
- Mohammad Ahadi released on bail from Tabriz prison after 4 months + 6 days.
- Gholamhossein Azari Najababadi was released after completing his one year sentence; he was arrested during 25 Bahman (2/14/2011) protest for carrying a green flag.
- Mehdi Forouzandeh Pour head of Mousavi office released from prison today at the end of his sentence.
- Mehrdad Karami was released from Tabriz prison after 5 months incarceration
- Vahid Lalipour, Mahdieh Golroo's spouse, freed at the end of his sentence.
- Atefeh Nabavi released from prison
- Banned from education, Baha'i Sama Nourani was released after completing her 1 year sentence.
- Ebrahim Rashidi was released on bail from Tabriz prison after 4 months incarceration
- Banned from education student activist Kaveh Rezaei Shiraz has been released on furlough.
- Rouzbeh Saadati released on bail from Tabriz prison after 4 months + 6 days.
- Davoud Soleimani, member of Participation Front central council, freed from prison at the end of his sentence.
D-Other News
- Arash Sadeghi began a hunger strike to support fellow-prisoner Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki.
- Tuesday afternoon, Evin Ward 350 was raided by security forces. Political prisoners protested by chants of Ya Hossein Mir Hossein.
News of injustice in Iran
- Sonia Ahmadi, Baha'i, sentenced by appeals to 5 years in jail.
- Omid Firouzian, Baha'i; has been sentenced to 4 years + 6 months by lower court in Semnan.
- Nourah Nabilzadeh Baha'i, sentenced by appeals to 5 years in jail.
- Baha'i Pouya Tabianian has been sentenced to 6 years + 6 months by a court in Semnan.
- Sina Zahiri sentenced to two years in prison.
- One execution in Evin on Wednesday morning.
- Eight people executed in Urmia prison on Thursday.
University – Culture
- Shahre Ketab (Book City) in Boustan shopping center has been shut down.
- Rudehen University has now been sexually segregated.
- Turkish poetry night ceremony by Azeri students at Tehran University, cancelled.
- Journalism scrapped from top university.
- Foad Shams has been banned from continuing his university education.
- Jackson Pollock painting back in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts after a row with Iran's customs service over unpaid debt was resolved.
- Student activist Reza Arab suspended from Mazandaran University.
- Mehdi Jamalvand suspended from Hamedan University.
- 40 students summoned by Beheshti University Disciplinary Committee.
- Babak Maghazei becomes a starred student*.
- Jabar Dastbaz suspended from Saghez university.
- House of Cinema permanently shut down.
* "starred students" are discriminated against and prevented from continuing their education
- Kiosk venders in Tabriz have had a protest gathering in front of the city hall protesting the actions of the Urban Squares Organization.
- Students at Tabriz University protest the Internet cuts/interruption to services.
- In reported clashes in Ilam, 5 military officers are siad to have been killed and 10's of protesters arrested.
Economy in Iran
- $1 = 1780 tomans on Saturday, 1732 tomans on Monday.
- Abhar Steel Factory has been closed.
- Workers of Iran Barak have not been paid for 7 months.
- Workers of Parris factory in Sanandaj have not been paid for a year.
- Iran cancels $2 billion dam contract with China.
- 80 tires factory workers laid off.
Iran abroad
- British Foreign Secretary W. Hague condemns violence against Ahwazi Arab Protesters.
- IRGC Commander: Iran's Qods force has significant presence in Syria.
- Iran targeted by 'Flame' espionage virus 'The virus could only have been created by a state'.
- Vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi visits Kenya.
- 10 Iranians have been executed in Saudi Arabia. Iran summoned the Saudi ambassador to hand a note of complaint.
- At the end of the 9th Conference for Economic Cooperation between Iran and Tajikistan in Tehran, five Memorandums of Understanding were signed.
Politics in Iran
- 'Bakhtiar' dam is given to IRGC's Khatem-Al-Anbia. [See also cancelled China project above]
- Ali Larijani elected president of the parliament.
- Security forces shut down the international agriculture and food exhibition in Tehran as some booth owners were in violation of Islamic dress code.
- Iranian police restrict sale of neckties.
- Iran, number one in opium usage in the world.
- 62% of Iranian Olympiad winners immigrate.
- Dust clouds appears again over Tehran.
- Research found 5.4% of child labourers and streets kids in Iran have AIDS.
- Launch of temporary marriage centers in Tehran.
- Trojan targets Iranian and Syrian dissidents via proxy tool.
- 25% of Iran's population suffers from Psychiatric problems.


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PSY in November 2012.
South Korean sensation PSY will perform at the "Christmas in Washington" concert taping Sunday as planned despite furor over a graphic anti-American rap he delivered in 2004, TNT told NBC News on Friday. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are scheduled to attend the concert.
The singer issued an apology Friday after a pair of America-bashing incidents became public.
At a 2004 protest concert, he rapped lyrics that The Washington Post translated as: "Kill those (expletive) Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives. Kill those (expletive) Yankees who ordered them to torture. Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers. Kill them all slowly and painfully." MTV News reports that instead of "Yankees," PSY actually rapped "bitches."
The graphic lyrics were not PSY's own, but from the song "Dear American," by South Korean metal band N.EX.T.
PSY performed the song as part of a protest concert after a South Korean missionary and translator, Kim Sun-il, was beheaded by members of an Islamist group after South Korea refused to cancel plans to send more troops to Iraq and withdraw those already there.
At an earlier concert, in 2002, PSY smashed a model of an American tank, Korean media sources say, protesting the acquittal of two U.S. military men who were involved in an accident that killed two South Korean teenagers.
"As a proud South Korean who was educated in the United States and lived there for a very significant part of my life, I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world," PSY said in an apology statement given to NBC News.
"The song I was featured in — eight years ago — was part of a deeply emotional reaction to the war in Iraq and the killing of two Korean schoolgirls that was part of the overall antiwar sentiment shared by others around the world at that time. While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused by those words."
PSY's statement went on to say, "I have been honored to perform in front of American soldiers in recent months — including an appearance on the Jay Leno show specifically for them — and I hope they and all Americans can accept my apology. While it's important we express our opinions, I deeply regret the inflammatory and inappropriate language I used to do so. In my music I try to give people a release, a reason to smile. I have learned that through music, our universal language, we can all come together as a culture of humanity and I hope that you will accept my apology."
The event will be taped Sunday for broadcast on TNT Dec. 21. The Obamas and other Washington notables are scheduled to attend. Conan O'Brien hosts the concert, and Diana Ross, Demi Lovato and Scotty McCreery are also scheduled to perform. PSY is scheduled to close out the concert with what TNT calls "a special performance." Proceeds from the concert benefit benefit the Children's National Medical Center.


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In most cases, you'll have to be invited to what's known in the franchise industry as a Discovery Day. And, if you are invited to a Discovery Day, get ready. Things are about to get serious.
Ask Questions about your Franchise Opportunity
If you've done a good job with your franchise business selections, including making sure that the opportunities you've looked into are easily within your budget, and you've done a stellar job with your research, there's only a couple of things left for you to do to get the most profitable franchise.
The first thing involves energy. You're going to have to decide which opportunity you're going to focus all of your energy on. Once you've done that, you're a lot closer to becoming an owner. The next thing you do will probably involve travel, and with it, some out of pocket expenses. It's the Discovery Day. It's the day that you travel to franchise headquarters to meet the franchise team.
A Prospective Franchisee Must be Invited to Discovery Day
Not just anybody can attend a Discovery Day. Only candidates that qualify financially, and have been through every stage of the franchise exploration process with their franchise development representatives can get an invite.
Most franchise development representatives don't extend an invitation to their franchise candidates until they've gone through several specific steps in the process. The candidate's credit history is checked, and there's usually a background check done, too. In addition, the development representatives must feel confident that their candidates have a good understanding of the business itself, and what their roles would be in the operation of it.
Disclosure Document and the Franchise Opportunity
It's also the job of the representative to help their candidate's get a feel for the (FDD) Franchise Disclosure Document, and to answer questions that they may have along the way. All franchise buyers must be presented with this document before they're permitted to actually buy the franchise opportunity. The items listed, (23 of them) include company financials, executive backgrounds, and the actual franchise contract.
If you've met the criteria identified above, and you do get invited up to headquarters, should you go?
The answer to that question depends on how serious you are about becoming an owner of the franchise in question.
Prospective Franchisees Must be Serious
When my clients ask me if they should attend a Discover Day that they've been invited to, I tell them to only go if they've made the commitment to buy the franchise. That's because by the time Discovery Day rolls around, the candidate should know just about all there is to know about the opportunity. No more research should be needed. The candidate should have a pretty good idea on how his or her franchise will be financed, and should have a franchise attorney standing by to look the franchise contract over, which may be sent home with the candidate at Discovery Day.
That's right; a contract. That's why only serious franchise candidates should pay a visit to franchise headquarters … candidates who are just about ready to take the leap.
What to Expect at Discovery Day
Your day at headquarters will allow you to see the entire operation in action. You'll get a tour of the facility plus you'll spend some time in all the different departments. You'll meet the CEO. You may have an opportunity visit one or two franchise operations located in the vicinity of headquarters
When you attend the franchisor's Discovery Day, you're going to notice a difference in the way that your franchise development rep is communicating with you. Eventually, things may start to feel a little more salesy than they have been during your past interactions. Your representative could be close to making a sale — and a commission.
The Last Steps for Prospective Franchisees
But, two things need to happen before that sale can take place:
- The executive team needs to feel that you'd be a good franchisee, and if so, formally approve you. If they do so, your franchise representative will call you a day or two after your Discovery Day visit, and tell you that you've been approved as a franchisee and that they'd love to have you as one.
- The second decision will of course be yours — The Decision to become a franchisee.
Your Discovery Day will fly by. Absorb as much as you can. Get a feel for the company culture. Then go back home and sit on things for a couple of days. Bring the franchise contract to your (franchise) attorney. If everything looks good, you'll have a decision to make. You'll know what to do.
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According to the latest policy pronouncements from the Federal Reserve, our low-interest-rate environment is likely to be with us for quite a while longer. This continues an unprecedented period of historically low yields, even in the face of substantially expanding government debt.
This series of Federal Reserve easing efforts has forced many income investors out of their comfort zone in search of yield. Typical sources of income such as certificates of deposit yield next to nothing. In addition, typical income-producing sectors within the stock market, such as utilities, look overpriced at these levels.
For my own income portfolio, I have relied on a variety of atypical yield plays within the energy master limited partnership space, hotel real estate investment trusts and some small-cap, high-yield stocks such as Friedman Industries (FRD) to provide the distribution and dividend payouts I desire to maintain a solid income stream. Another unconventional yield play I recently added to this portfolio is the aircraft lessor Aircastle LTD (AYR). The company has had some positive catalysts recently, it yields over 5%, and it is cheap at these valuations.
Recent positives for Aircastle LTD:
- Fortress Investment Group (FIG) exited its substantial stake in the firm over the summer. This removed a substantial selling overhang on the stock.
- Aircastle LTD took advantage of the low-interest-rate environment and just issued $500 million in senior notes at 6.25%. The offering was oversubscribed, and proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, which could include buying additional aviation assets or retiring higher-priced debt.
- Aircastle LTD initiated a $50 million stock buyback program that should retire 4% to 6% of the outstanding float in 2013.
- Deutsche Bank just initiated the shares as a Buy this week with a $17 price target.
Aircastle LTD manages more than 150 plans in over 30 countries. The stock was crushed during the financial crisis and moved from $40 a share pre-crisis to $3 a share on liquidity concerns, as most of its fleet was purchased from 2006 to 2008. It has put a more conservative debt structure in place since then, and the stock has quadrupled off its crisis lows.
Here are four additional reasons Aircastle LTD is still a good income pick at $12 a share:
- The stock yields 5.5%, and the company has raised dividend payouts 50% since it emerged from the financial crisis. Its payout ratio is a conservative 40%.
- The company has crushed earnings estimates for six straight quarters. The average beat over consensus estimates has averaged more than 40% over that time period. Consensus earnings estimates for both fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2013 have risen nicely over the last three months.
- The eight analysts who cover the stock have a median price target north of $16 a share on AYR. Price targets range from $14.50 to $18 a share.
- Investors have shown concern that a third of the company's revenue comes from Europe, but it is important to remember that more than 50% of revenue comes from faster-growing emerging markets. The stock also sells at low 7x forward earnings and 60% of book value.


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There are times each season when a team's mettle is tested. The Dynamo already went through it once this season when they played three games in eight days in three cities. Although the stretch ended with a home loss to Sporting Kansas City, the Dynamo came away with a more than respectable six out of possible nine points.
Now, the Dynamo are faced with another difficult task that began on Sunday and will continue tomorrow.
After playing to a 1-1 draw against Sporting KC on Sunday afternoon, the Dynamo will host PDL club FC Tucson Wednesday night in the third round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Houston will then have two days to prepare for a Saturday night match in Ohio against the Columbus Crew. To top it all off, the Dynamo Reserves will play the Crew Reserves Sunday morning to make it four games in eight days for the club.
Tickets for Wednesday's Open Cup match start as just $10
"It's funny when you look back at the times when this team in its history has really come together," said goalkeeper Tally Hall. "It hasn't been when we've had all the players available. It's usually when we need guys to step up."
"Stepping up" is a phrase that will be heard a lot at Dynamo camp this week. For Wednesday's match against Tucson, the Dynamo will be without midfielders Brad Davis and Boniek Garcia due to national team duty. Jermaine Taylor and Corey Ashe are also questionable with respective groin injuries. Ashe was forced out of Sunday's game against Kansas City and withdrew from this week's national team camp. Add those names to an injured list that already features Calen Carr, Omar Cummings and Cam Weaver, and the Dynamo will have to rely on its depth to get through the four-game week.
Dominic Kinnear will call up five Dynamo Academy players to assist the reserves on Sunday, but the Dynamo's entire first team will be asked to "step up" and help Houston advance through the Open Cup as well as continue the team's road unbeaten streak on Saturday.
"In these moments, when your backs are against the wall, you figure out how good of a season you'll have," Hall added. "We've been in this position before and guys have stepped up. We also know that other teams are missing guys to injuries and international duty. Yeah, we're getting hit a little harder than most, but that's something we can handle. This team's success speaks for itself."


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Cassandra Anderson
October 21, 2010
Thirty-two states are on the path to UN-inspired carbon reduction, Cap-and-Trade schemes and unconstitutional alliances; the supporting Governors must be held accountable. Carbon reduction and population reduction go hand in hand. The United Nations failed to impose their treaties from the top down (the Kyoto and Copenhagen Accords) and the federal government has abandoned its unpopular national Cap-and-Trade scheme for now. Cap-and-Trade is being pursued on the state level, and one region has even raised over $700 million in carbon auctions.
The thirty-two states have been divided into three regions; regionalism is a trick that uses re-zoning to establish new jurisdictional authority. State compacts and agreements, in addition to state treaties with foreign governments, are unconstitutional. While these regional programs have avoided mention of United Nations Agenda 21, the blueprint for depopulation total control, evidence supports that this is an Agenda 21 Sustainable Development program for the following reasons:
• Man made global warming deception, based on discredited science from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC), is a primary excuse used to implement Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.
• California's AB 32 Global Warming Solutions Act is committed to achieving the targets of the UN Kyoto Protocol (a treaty with mandatory rules to limit carbon).
• RGGI (Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative of the Northeastern states) is similar to the UN Kyoto treaty with mandated regulations and a Cap-and-Trade scheme.
Because global warming has been discredited, it is now referred to as climate change, climate disruption and the greenhouse effect.
Many people may not realize that water vapor (H2O) accounts for 97% of all greenhouse gases and human activity contributes only a fraction of 1% to greenhouse gas emissions. Yet there is alarmism over how much carbon humans emit. Temperature drives CO2 levels. If it was beneficial to reduce carbon, limiting human carbon emissions would have no effect because human carbon emissions are so minuscule. Other gases like methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, etc. are not major greenhouse gases.
According to Dr. Michael Coffman, and over 30,000 other scientists, carbon dioxide (CO2) is essential for life on Earth. All plants must have it to produce food for themselves. At the current atmospheric concentrations, CO2 is limiting to plant growth. Currently, CO2 levels are about 387 ppm, and even if the levels increased by 500%, it would benefit agriculture and the Earth's atmosphere without any harm to humans or other animal life. The consensus that CO2 is harmful and that the science is "settled" is false.
Despite the fact that water vapor causes the overwhelming amount of greenhouse gas, the EPA failed to list it as a greenhouse gas in its 'Endangerment Finding', most likely because people would then understand that water, like carbon, is harmless and would reject the idea that CO2 is a threat to public health and welfare. The objective of controlling greenhouse gases is to implement political policies, like the EPA's 18,000 page document with carbon reduction codes that also include a Cap-and-Trade scheme. This is another example of how the UN has used a governmental body to impose its schemes.
There are 23 states that are partnered within 3 regions, with the goal of reducing human carbon emissions that can cause economic devastation. There are 9 additional states that are "observers" to these regional alliances, which means that they have taken some steps toward joining. The Governors of these 32 states seem to have been duped by discredited UN global warming "science", or they fear standing up against the regional alliances, or they are globalists. Most of these Governors' seats are open in the upcoming November 2nd elections. If the current Governors refuse to remove their States from these alliances, they can be voted out of office.
The regional alliances and their programs are outlined below:
The ten participating states in RGGI's Northeastern region are: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. RGGI's Cap-and-Trade auction began selling carbon allowances in 2008 and has amassed $729 million in sales for the RGGI program. In March of 2009, RGGI carbon allowances hit a peak of $3.51 per ton; the latest auction in September 2010 saw prices drop to $1.86 per ton- the market seems to be responding to the unravelling of global warming deception. Incidentally, the market for Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) shares crashed; CCX price per share peaked in 2008 at over $7, but CCX is now trading at 5-10 cents per share.
RGGI has mandatory regulations to cap and reduce CO2 emissions by 10% from the power sector (electricity) by 2018. Each state that adopted RGGI was required to adopt a rule through legislation or regulation, thereby making it mandatory and enforceable. RGGI is now targeting vehicle emissions, based on the California model. People who are familiar with UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development understand that its goal is total control by way of deindustrialization, economic destruction, centralization of power and limiting travel.
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Pennsylvania, a coal rich state, is an "observer" to RGGI, which means that it has taken steps toward joining RGGI. Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario are also observers. It is unconstitutionalfor States to make treaties with foreign governments (Article 1, Section 10).
Several Northeastern state governors did object to joining RGGI but later capitulated, or they were replaced by governors who did sign onto RGGI, or they joined due to pressure and direction by state legislators. When Mitt Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts, he opposed RGGI on the basis of a lack of opt-out provisions if energy prices rose beyond a certain level.
The following five governors instituted the Western Climate Initiative: Napolitano of Arizona (she is now US Secretary of Homeland Security), Schwarzenegger of California, Richardson of New Mexico, Kulongoski of Oregon and Gregoire of Washington State. Since that time, Montana and Utah have joined as states participating in this agreement.
Observer states include Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.
The foreign states that have joined the WCI are: British Colombia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Again, it is unconstitutional for States to enter into treaties with foreign governments.
California is the model for tyrannical regulations planned for other states to follow. California State passed the Global Warming Solution Act (AB 32) in 2006, so it is ready for implementation. However, because so many people understand that it is a "job killer" that could cost California over one million jobs, a bill to suspend it is on the November ballot (YES on Proposition 23 will suspend the Cap-and-Trade law).
In addition to power plants targeted in this control program, transportation is also marked. California has a law that has not yet been implemented, the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 (SB 375), which will raise taxes in order to re-zone land usage and transportation patterns. SB 375 proposes that individuals be monitored to track how many miles they travel in their cars and through which regions they travel. A toll charge is planned for crossing through regions, toll roads are planned and extra car registration taxes are suggested. The intent of SB 375 is to expand "natural lands" which would be unpaved and uninhabited. They acknowledge that they will have to get local governments to "buy into" their plans for implemntation, so their tactics may include more propaganda and financial incentives to local governments.
Arizona State passed a law barring the state government from adopting a regional Cap-and-Trade program without legislative approval. Utah also passed a law barring a Cap-and-Trade scheme in their state and Governor Herbert of Utah was urged by State Legislators to pull out of the WCI altogether, but he did not.
Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington State is involved in a lawsuit for unconstitutionally issuing an Executive Order to implement climate change measures that were rejected by the Washington State Legislature.
According to an article from the American Spectator, Idaho Governor Butch Otter appears to support carbon reduction in the marketplace (Cap-and-Trade) and the WCI, even though Idaho is not yet a member.
Click here for the WCI action plans for each member State and Province.
The Governors of the six full participant states: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, along with Manitoba, established this accord several years ago with funding from these tax exempt globalist organizations: the Joyce Foundation (contributor to creating the CCX), The McKnight Foundation (funding of energy market manipulation) and the Kresge Foundation. Observer states include Indiana, Ohio and South Dakota; Ontario is an observer as well.
The Midwest has intensive manufacturing and agricultural sectors making is the most coal dependent region in North America. MGGRA's website claims that renewable energy presents a great opportunity for the region, but renewable energy is inefficient. MGGRA is focused on changing and influencing federal policy and receiving federal funding to combat discredited man made global warming, and is used as a vehicle to implement Cap-and-Trade and other restrictive policies.
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The definition of an Accord is: a formal act of agreement- a treaty.
Please refer to the article "UN Tricks and Treaties" for a more detailed explanation of the treaties that are being implemented by the States.
The money to be collected from the WCI Cap-and-Trade program is to be used for establishing renewable energy, which is inefficient. The documents for SB 375 (that re-zones land usage and transportation patterns) indicate that Cap-and-Trade proceeds could help to fund the restrictive regulations of SB 375. The American Carbon Registry, slated to manage the the funds merged with Winrock International. Winthrop Rockefeller (former Governor of Arkansas) seems to be the key founding member of this organization (click here to see a list of the current funding partners that include agencies of the US government). There was no response to our e-mail and telephone request for an explanation of how Winrock would allocate the money collected from the Cap-and-Trade program.
There are 37 Governors' seats available in the upcoming November election. The Governor of each of the 32 states that is a member or observer of any of the regional alliances must be pressured to opt out of the unconstitutional alliances or replaced with a candidate who will opt out of the alliance (all but 5 allied states' governors seats are available in the November elections).
You can forward this article to your candidate and ask them if they support these unconstitutional alliances and the global warming myths.
State Legislators are also critical office holders, so it is important to discover their position on this matter before the elections.
Please visit www. MorphCity.com for more information on Agenda 21 and to read the companion article about energy "UN Tricks and Treaties".
Thanks to Dr. Michael Coffman for his meticulous research. The water vapor video clip was taken from his documentary "Global Warming or Global Governance" which can be purchased by clicking here. His latest achievement is the book "Rescuing a Broken America" that details how America can return to the Constitution.
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Pair returns to WBU for piano concert
PLAINVIEW - Pianist Mark Anthony Pair will return to the stage at Wayland Baptist University in a piano recital slated for 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13.
Pair, who serves as Wayland's Piano Artist In Residence, will present a program featuring the music of Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt. The recital is Pair's first since his retirement from Wayland, before which he performed 72 such concerts while teaching piano for the university.
Both Chopin and Liszt hail from the Romantic era of music in the 19 th century, a period in which Europe flourished with great musicians whose work featured lyrical melodies coupled with dramatic technical executions and reflected nationalism, nature and folklore. Chopin, a Polish-French composer, was known as the "Poet of the Piano," while Liszt, a Hungarian, was called "Prophet of the Piano." Though their work often differed in strength and tone, the two were considered among Europe's greatest composers.
Pair's program will include six compositions by Chopin and five by Liszt, representing a broad spectrum of the two composers' finest works. Of the Chopin compositions featured, there are two scherzi, one impromptu, one nocturne and two etudes. The Liszt selections include two waltzes, two etudes and one liebestraume.
On the music faculty for 36 years, Pair taught piano and music theory, performed twice yearly at Wayland and periodically for other groups. He held memberships in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Friend of the Arts, the National Piano Guild, Texas Music Educators Association and the Scriabin Society.


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The A.N.T. (Advanced Natural Talents) program, is an Educational program at Webster High School where age 11-14 adolescents who are naturally talented in a specific area are promoted from middle school to high school. This program brought Chyna Parks, Olive, and Fletcher together in the pilot episode. The "A.N.T.s" (as they are called by the rest of Webster High) have to get used to being high school students at age of 11 (when most American children are just starting middle school, or even still in elementary school in some cases). This program was introduced in the pilot episode, Transplanted. The program exists all across the US and in other countries such as the UK, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden and Australia.
In the A.N.T. program, students are given all of the equipment and opportunities that they need in order to fully develop their talents, while still attending rudimentary classes at the high school. They are allowed to stay in the central room of the A.N.T. program in between classes, at lunch, and after school.
The A.N.T.s are usually disliked by the other students, especially Lexi and the cheerleaders. Cameron usually dislikes them, too, but has grown to like them. Paisley, however, has no problems with the A.N.T.s and encourages Chyna to join cheerleaders because the latter is talented.
Some students are possibly allowed to skip classes, as they do not pertain to the A.N.T.'s skills, or the A.N.T. in question may know more than the course material can provide.
In Episode 3, Principal Skidmore states that the whole point of the A.N.T. program is to allow her to exploit the A.N.T.s' advanced natural talents for her own benefit. In Episode 4, things seem as though she gives the A.N.T.s good grades that they do not deserve so that they can compete in Art Shows (Fletcher), Musical Recitals (Chyna), and Scholastic Decathlons and Spelling Bees (Olive). She says that she is planning to take a swimming champion from Japan to compete for their school in swim meets, even though he is unable to speak English.
It appears that each A.N.T. has a sort of "station" where they can hone their talents. Chyna has a place to play music, Olive has a place to read, Fletcher has an easel, Angus has a computer, Benny has a table to build robots, and Svetlana has a pommel horse to practice gymnastics on.
Apart from Chyna, Olive, Fletcher, Angus, Benny, and Svetlana, there are several unintroduced A.N.T.s, most notably a male A.N.T. who is often seen on his stationary bicycle, lifting weights, or doing lunges. There are several female A.N.T.s who are occasionally seen doing homework, especially a ballet A.N.T. who was dancing across the room when Chyna first arrived in the A.N.T. Farm.
At one point, there was an A.N.T. named Emma. What her talent was is a mystery. According to Olive, she went to retrieve her lunch from her locker during lunch period and was swept away by older and larger students and presumably suffered fatal injuries, much like Angus. Now, nobody (except for Olive, of course) can even remember her, or they have sworn never to speak of it. Though it's possible she just made that up so Chyna wouldn't get hurt.
As of Season 3, billionaire inventor Zoltan Grundy took all the A.N.T.s from Webster High and created a Z-Tech Prodigy School tailored to suit the A.N.T. Program, where they could get better facilities and treatment, much to the chagrin of Principal Skidmore. The school also takes the first student not to have been aged 11 - 14 into the program, Lexi Reed. Lexi was high school age when the school opens but had hidden her talent for mathematics for years and as such, was never inducted into the A.N.T. program at a younger age.
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- Olive Doyle (Academics Prodigy)
- Fletcher Quimby (Art Prodigy)
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- Benny (Robotics Prodigy)
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- Megan
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- Nigel (Acting Prodigy) (Unknown if still apart)
- Violet (Sports Prodigy)
- Alex (Sports Prodigy)
- Lexi Reed (Math Prodigy As of Season 3)
- Kennedy Van Buren (Debate Prodigy As of Season 3)
- Dixon Ticonderoga (Spy Prodigy As of Season 3)
- Hudson (Rap Prodigy As of Season 3)
- Seth Wiseman (Zoology Prodigy As of Season 3)
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- British Etiquette Prodigy
- American Culinary Prodigy
- French Art Prodigy
- Italian Culinary Prodigy
- Japanese Music Prodigy
- Two French Nature Prodigies
- Swedish Engineering Prodigy
- Australian Art Prodigy
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Clearly, the gregarious eight-year-old was eager to talk.
He talked about how proud he could spell all the words in his name: Timothy Michael Ivan Valentine Salamanca.
He talked about his new haircut (stars shaved into the side of his head) and his best friend, Antonio.
And once a week, when he wasn't talking, Timothy read picture books alongside his new mentor, about boats, guide dogs, the moon, the sea, building things.
Sharon Underwood adored it all.
For Underwood, who volunteered with Reading Pals, a reading initiative held for the first time this year at Blanche H. Daughtrey Elementary School, it was a chance to befriend a child.
"It was absolutely fabulous," said Underwood, 60, of Ellenton. "My reading pal, he seemed to be starving for the ability to express himself ... I found it wonderful because I got to know him. I got to communicate."
More than 100 community volunteers traveled to the magnet school on 63rd Avenue East this year to spend one hour a week reading with a second-grader, an opportunity made possible by a grant given to the United Way for early learning initiatives.
This afternoon, students, parents and mentors will celebrate the first year of a program that officials say has propelled students four to eight months ahead of their peers, according to FAIR testing results.
"The extra reading makes the difference, and the positive relationship with an adult helps too," said Sandra Holmes, community impact coordinator for the United Way. "If a child isn't on grade level by third grade, they are four times less likely not to graduate."
Underwood said she watched Timothy become a stronger reader throughout the year.
"I wasn't just reading to him, and by the way he read to me a lot more than I read to him," said Underwood, a marketing representative for Servpro, a restoration company.
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Other mentors say they feel the experience would help students in all areas of their lives. Next year, program directors want to expand to five schools and attract 200 volunteers.
"If you can do any kind of one-on-one with these little guys, it really helps," volunteer Charlotte Johnson said. "I always tell them, if you can read, you can do anything."
This week Johnson, a retired nurse, sat in the Daughtrey cafeteria with second-graders Fendi Garcia-Roblero and Lilyana Garcia, whose love for reading has taken off because of the program.
"Charlotte helped me with my spelling," Fendi said with a smile. "And sounding out words."
Though Fendi and Lilyana practice with books based on the Core Curriculum Standards that will be implemented in all schools, they said they have taken to the Junie B. Jones series, tales about an elementary-aged girl with lots of energy and sass.
Fendi has started renting them from the library. Her pal, Lilyana, wants to tackle the classic Beezus and Ramona series, but she thinks right now it might be too hard.
"My teacher has it, so I will read it next year," she chirps.
Nearby, volunteer Suzanne Theiss read a book with a student, and started hangman as a treat. Giggles echoed across the room as the student learned the word "flipper." Kids at the next table whose mentors have gone North for the summer played word games with Holmes. They had to read a series of words and then find what they represent in a complicated Where's Waldo-like picture.
Julio Cisneros ran up to Holmes.
"A mug is a cup, right?" he asked and pointed to his classmates. "They think it's mud."
"Well what's the difference?" Holmes asked. Julio thought a second.
"A "g" and a "d," he said.
"And what's mud?" Holmes asked.
"Dirty!" Julio giggled, and ran off to read some more with his friends.
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Police: Teens arrested after BB gun vandalism spree
Ankeny police said they have arrested 2 teens in connection with a spree of BB gun vandalism.
Police received multiple reports of two juveniles who were seen shooting at vehicle windows with a BB gun. On Nov. 26, police were called to the 1000 block of SW Cherry Street.
Police said a witness there told them he saw the teens in a maroon car with no license plates shooting out the windows of vehicles parked along the street.
Shortly after the initial report, police said they found the teens in the vehicle in the 400 block of NW Ash Street.
Police believe the teens purchased the BB guns only hours before being stopped by police.
According to police, when asked how many vehicles they had targeted one of the juveniles stated, "A lot…maybe 35 cars".
Sergio Alvarez, 17, and Bryon McKinley, 16, both of Ankeny, were were detained on suspicion of criminal mischief for shooting vehicles with a BB gun and transported to the Ankeny police headquarters for interviews.
The two suspects will be referred to Polk County Juvenile Court on multiple charges of second-degree criminal mischief.
Approximately 20 victims sustained damage. Property damage is estimated at $6,700, but may exceed $10,000 as damage reports trickle into the police department.
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Kinda Lucid Puppy is a 4.3.1-based puplet for general usage. It is built to be better-looking, modern and suitable for multimedia than 4.3.1:
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The difference between KLP and the original 4.3.1 is noticeable in 4 areas:
Newer, updated stuff
: Abiword, Gnumeric, Pmusic, Pburn, xine-lib and more. In two cases, 4.3.1 applications are replaced: Seamonkey with Opera and Pprocess with LXTask. The newer versions fix many of the severe bugs in 4.3.1, such as the ROX focus bug and the huge file chooser bug. Also, some unneeded applications are removed - for instance, Pcdripper is removed because Asunder is better and already included.
- KLP supports many new audio/video formats that 4.3.1 doesn't, including XviD, MPEG-4 and FLV, thanks to the upgraded multimedia packages.
- since the release of 4.3.1 Barry added many changes and improvements to Woof: a man replacement, a replacement for the old yaf-splash, clean unmount of save files and much more.
KLP has them.
Also, KLP has some stuff backported from later puppies, like the Lucid Puppy first-run wizard.
- KLP looks great
To sum up, Kinda Lucid Puppy is a "generic" puplet that offers all traditional Puppy stuff and sticks with Puppy tradition of small size and home-made applications, while providing a better usage experience.
Who is it for?
The target audience of this puplet is all Puppy users, especially people that need multimedia capabilities in their puplet, Opera fans, Puppy 4.x fans and people with hardware that doesn't get along with Lucid Puppy.
- New menu button (a computer icon) and tray buttons: desktop, browser, partview and rxvt.
- Added: the font appearance wizard I wrote for Lupu, a new printer manager (a modified version of ttuxxx's printer manager), LXRandR (the pet I made for Lupu), an improved tray icon for Pmusic.
- Recompiled and/or updated: libogg, libvorbis, libao, faac, faad2, ffmpeg, jwm (recompiled on KLP), libsamplerate, libsndfile, libtheora, x264, xine-lib, xvidcore, xz.
- Updated: Geany to 0.19, Pmusic to 1.0.3, Woof skeleton, Moo, Asunder to 2.0, Tar to 1.23.
- Removed: Pdict (useless), EmbeddedBookmarks (what the heck is that?), calcoo, pdvdrsab, pCD, pmetatagger, first run wizard, pstreamvid (pupRadio is better), you2pup (doesn't work), zmixer (very basic and useless, retrovol rocks), yasm and libvpx (no longer needed with the new ffmpeg), Pidgin (2.6.6 is getting old and it's huge).
- The chat icon now opens the freenode webchat through Opera.
- Opera runs without the mail/news/chat components loaded by default to make it lighter; the mail icon opens Opera with them, straight to the inbox.
- A new GTK theme, NeutrinoPuppy.
- Way smaller than 005, mainly because Pidgin is out.
- Updated: GTK from 2.14.7 to 2.16.16 (
the 4.3.1 file chooser bug is fixed!
), glib from 2.18.3 to 2.20.5, pwireless 0.8.4 to pwireless2, Tar from 1.19 to spup's patched 1.22, Moo from 009 to 010.
- Removed: Psip, PPLOG, Quisp, Hiawatha and the podcast grabber.
- Added: flsynclient, synclient and xz.
- Global system font set, much better fonts in Opera, GTK themes work better, the Raleigh GTK theme now works perfectly.
- Fixed Opera n' CUPS problem.
- Fixed the help page and the welcome page.
- Updated Woof to the version used to build Slackpup 0.4 beta.
- All Puppy MIME-type icons I removed are back now.
- New wallpaper, taken from GNOME
- Major cleanup in /usr/share and /usr/local.
- Ships without
sc0ttman's optional save thingy
and the
SFSs from psubdir thingy
, they're quite controversial, so I removed them.
- Rebuilt directly from the Puppy 4.3.1 ISO
- Replaced: Ayttm with Pidgin.
- Removed: cgtkcalc and ycalc (2 calculators, the other two are still there), mp (one console text editor, e3 is still there), NicoEdit, gfnrename, gplanarity, pstopwatch, Rubix, Xemeraldia, xsoldier, ctorrent, pctorrent, Axel, Uget, PictureViewer (what is that for?), pCD, pcdripper (Asunder is better) zfind and some wallpapers (the solid color and version-specific wallpapers).
- Updated: Pmusic from 1.0 to 1.0.1.
- Opera's license moved to /usr/share/doc/legal.
- New artwork: a new icon set based on Gnome-Colors and the GNOME icon set and a new wallpaper taken from KDE.
- New icon/folder icons from GNOME.
- Some menu items removed (top, alsamixer).
- Removed some leftovers from the old 4.3.1 Abiword, PuppyBrowser, Seamonkey and Aqualung.
- Way more solid, more polished.
- Replaced fonts - Puppy comes with DejaVu LGC fonts, a slightly smaller variant of the DejaVu fonts that includes only Euorpean languages. I replaced them with the "normal" DejaVu fonts to support languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
- Way better artwork, great contrast and a better choice of colors - a blend of black with blue, red and violet (see the screenies!)
- Tiny clean-up, the removal Seamonkey left some .desktop files.
- Updated Moo with a small fix.
- Some polish.
- Opera 10.60 replaces Seamonkey and PuppyBrowser, it is installed under /root/.local for much easier future upgrades.
- Superb multimedia experience - upgraded multimedia packages like ffmpeg, libogg, libvorbis, libsndfile and xine-lib (the list is longer), so now KLP supports WebM, FLV and all common audio and video formats.
- Updated: Woof skeleton, now KLP auto-connects to wired networks and includes pman.
- Added: Rerwin's modem fix.
- Upgraded: gnumeric, Abiword, goffice, libgsf, Moo, network tray icon.
- Replaced: Aqualung with Pmusic, Pprocess with LXTask, the ancient absvolume with Retrovol, the old free memory and network applets with Quirky's.
- Added: Bones, woo-ff, Precord, pupRadio, the Moo remaster tool (it was used to build KLP).
- Upgraded: the CPU scaling wizard, the JWM configuration wizard, the network wizard, the classic network wizard, Pburn, pCD, Pfilesearch, Pfind, PMirrorget, Pschedule, You2pup, the SFS converter, Rox and JWM to their Quirky versions.
- The Woof skeleton is upgraded, so you get the new gtk-splash, clean unmount on shutdown, Barry's simple network setup wizard and various improvements.
- Flash 10.1.53.64 (the one with that serious vulnerability fixed) instead of the aging Flash 9 that YouTube and many sites no longer support.
- A slightly modified version of Lucid Puppy's first run wizard: I modified it to automatically detect the running Puppy name and version, removed some incorrect labels and changed the text.
- Lucid Puppy's artwork.
(includes a 005 to 006 delta!)
Two notes:
1) Use the 4.3.1 devx as the devx, it's OK. I suggest you to compile stuff on a vanilla 4.3.1, because this one has many stuff updated and your packages may end up incompatible with 4.3.1.
2) Each version is in its own directory. You can update previous versions with the deltas I provided
Credit goes to DaveS for many useful PETs and suggestions, thank you so much!
Thanks to KLP I'm officially in love with Opera ... and I'd like you to know that working on this puplet really improved my knowledge about Puppy and my l33t Linux haxx0r skillz
I must admit I'm very very pleased with KLP 006, despite the pessimism and low self-esteem I've always had
If there's anything wrong or bad with KLP, feel free to share it with me and everybody else, I'm a perfectionist and I want 007 (if there is a 007) to be
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Totally failed to get wired network going which work on almost all other puppies.
MP4 fails at times too which work in quirky 1.0
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Wired networks work well as in 4.3.1 or even better, I have no idea what you did that caused that
Regarding MP4, I think I'm going to try to recompile gxine.
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I have no idea what you did that caused that
I booted first into quirky1.0 and installed KLP frugally and then rebooted into KLP and it told me that there was no driver for my LAN. Sadly I have no idea what my lan card is. I have a poor memory but I have tried all four ways to activate it. SNS usually works best on the other puppies and them have no problem at all. Only at most three Puppies out of some 30 tested behave as KLP does.
So I don't think it is me that have done anything. Are you sure your KLP is as good as Quirky is? Friendly Smile.
using google I get
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Manufacturer: ECSMotherboard Name: MCP61PM-HMHP/Compaq motherboard name: Nettle3-GL8E
Network (LAN)
Integrated 10/100 Base-T networking interface
What does Base-T refer to? Seems to be a integrated no name LAN.
So either it is GeForce or HP/Compaq driver I need but where are they?
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First of all, I didn't mention Quirky, you did. I did not say KLP is a Quirky-based puplet ...
Regarding your network card, if it worked with 4.3.1, it must work with KLP. You have 3 different network wizards ... don't say it isn't enough.
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Tested to see if it is my fault it fail to work. Downloaded Luci-208 and that one gave me a connection right away asking if I wanted to save it.
Most likely I have NVidia Ge Force chips LAN ethernet card integrated.
What am I supposed to do to get it connect?
Luci-208 played the MP4 that your KLP failed to play.
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Luci auto-connects to wired networks, KLP doesn't.
Try the classic network wizard ... if it works on 4.3.1, should work here too. By the way: GeForce is a GPU
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Iguleder, did you upgrade Gnumeric? The latest fixes some important bugs that were still present in 4.3.1?
Does Opera work with CUPS? I failed to get that to work a while back. Maybe you have left PuppyBrowser in for CUPS?
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Same gnumeric ... and yes, CUPS works with Opera. I also linked the email icon to Opera's mail thingy, it's a very very nice setup.
It has many bugs fixed, mainly Woof-related ones. Rox's focus bug and JWM's fullscreen madness are gone
I'm still working on the multimedia overhaul, recompiled many things, but I'm looking for a way to remove all old stuff from 4.3.1, it's very complicated because they're split between the main SFS and the devx.
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I tested all three network ways to do it but none of them worked and I failed to find the nvidia or HP LAN driver to use.
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Iguleder wrote:
Same gnumeric
To update gnumeric you need the .pet from here
and these two .pets also. Dont forget to remove old version
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All boots up and sets up nicely on my system. Gnumeric update works but needs a symlink in usr/bin symlink gnumeric-1.10 as gnumeric.
From set up menu, set up mouse/keyboard offers option to set up touchpad, but fisynclient is not installed, so menu entry plays dead.
Tried to update Abiword to latest but it got a bit complex so will wait till 02/opera.
Nice to be messin with 4.3.1 again, its so snappy.
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I removed the old gnumeric, libgsf, goffice, faac, faad, ffmpeg, libao, libogg, libsamplerate, libsndfile, libvorbis, xine-lib and xvidcore.
I have compiled newer versions, and the new ffmpeg/xine-lib now support FLV, x264, WebM and all the fancy stuff.
I'm currently working on transplanting the new versions, compiled them all, they work just fine. I kept the old gxine because the new one uses 2 windows by default, I can supply it with default settings that disable that, but if the old one works, why change?
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I notice the filechooser dialogue still loads half off my screen. Do you need a pic to demonstrate?
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Ummm ... what file chooser? The GTK one?
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This weekend we are hosting a Yoga group and Christ, Jean, Bill and Elaine came to help out with the work. It's great to have you Sangha members from the 'outside world' contribute in this way. Not only do we get to know each other better and do we have the opportunity to learn from each other, but also is Yokoji helped in sustaining a living and thus do you help to keep this center available for all of us to practice. Thank you!
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